Position summary

Arcadis is recruiting a Graduate Environmental Management Consultant onto its two-year Graduate GROW Programme, supporting the transition from student to professional alongside real client work from day one. Specialising in environmental management, the graduate helps coordinate environmental assessments and provide advice across major infrastructure, urban regeneration, and community-focused projects.

Why this role matters

Major development and infrastructure projects must reduce their environmental impacts and clear rigorous assessment to gain planning consent. Training graduates to coordinate environmental assessments from feasibility through EIA is how Arcadis helps clients deliver projects responsibly while enhancing environmental performance.

Key responsibilities

• Reduce environmental impacts by helping clients lower impacts and enhance environmental performance across their projects.
• Coordinate assessments by supporting environmental assessments and providing advice for infrastructure, mixed-use, public realm, and master planning projects.
• Work across the project life cycle by contributing from feasibility studies and optioneering to Strategic Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments.
• Own deliverables by working in consultant teams, producing deliverables, and liaising with clients.
• Support planning applications by helping prepare environmental assessments that underpin planning submissions.

Team and stakeholders

The role sits within Arcadis's integrated town planning, environmental assessment, and management service, working in teams of consultants alongside technical specialists and clients across large-scale infrastructure and development projects, with support from managers and centrally delivered cohort training.

Key details

• Based in Cardiff (and five more UK locations); part of the two-year Graduate GROW Programme.
• Significant site work, requiring frequent travel and extended periods away from home.
• Application closing date 6 November 2026 (may close sooner); early application encouraged.

Requirements

• Graduating in 2027 or recently graduated in 2026, with at least a 2:2 in a relevant master's or bachelor's degree.
• An accepted degree (BEng/BSc/BA/MEng/MSc/MA) in Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, or Earth Sciences, ideally with ISEP accreditation or equivalent.
• Arcadian skills including resilience, creativity, analytical thinking, and being a team player.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to use technical knowledge to influence stakeholders.
• A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel and stay away from home.